Mitochondrial genome of the North African Sahara Honeybee, Apis mellifera sahariensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Nizar Haddad; Noureddine Adjlane; Wahida Loucif-Ayad; Abhinandita Dash; Naganeeswaran S; Balaji Rajashekar; Kosai Al-Nakeeb; Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1365647

Mitochondrial genome of the North African Sahara Honeybee, Apis mellifera sahariensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Aug 22;2(2):548-549. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1365647.

Authors

Nizar Haddad¹, Noureddine Adjlane², Wahida Loucif-Ayad³, Abhinandita Dash⁴, Naganeeswaran S⁴, Balaji Rajashekar⁴, Kosai Al-Nakeeb⁵, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten⁵

Affiliations

¹ Bee Research Department, National Center for Agriculture Research and Extension, Baq'a, Jordan.
² Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, M'hamed Bougara University of Boumerdes, ENS Kouba, Algiers, Algeria.
³ Faculty of Science, Laboratory of Applied Animal Biology, University Badji-Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria.
⁴ Genotypic Technology Private Limited, Bangalore, India.
⁵ Department of Bio and Health Informatics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

Abstract

We present the complete mitochondrial genome of honey bee subspecies, Apis mellifera sahariensis (Apidae) belonging to the African lineage. The assembled circular genome has a length of 16,569 bp which comprises 13 protein coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and AT rich region.

Keywords: Apis mellifera sahariensis; Sahara bee; genome sequence; mitogenome.